Security Architect

As Security Architect you design and assure security across complex digital systems for UK Critical National Infrastructure. You will lead security-focused product and solution design, aligning with government and industry standards. You collaborate with senior and technical stakeholders to balance security with operational needs, driving pragmatic, standards-based architectures. You’ll shape security patterns and programme-level cyber strategy, and apply innovative solutions to evolving threats. This role combines technical leadership with impact on national security and client outcomes.

• competitive pension scheme
• employee share plan
• health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits
• green care scheme
• private health plans
• annual incentive

• Analyse existing and proposed architectures for security risk
• Lead the technical design of systems and services with appropriate security controls
• Assure security control implementation through lifecycle
• Produce security architecture patterns aligned with Government/Industry standards
• Support quality assurance across a diverse team of architects
• Influence senior and technical stakeholders across the client’s business
• Balance requirements with operational needs to engineer pragmatic solutions
• Research and justify innovative security architecture solutions
• Develop clients’ cyber security vision and programme-level strategy

• Cloud security experience with Microsoft Azure or AWS
• CISSP; CISM; CRISK or equivalent certifications
• Awareness of EA frameworks (SABSA, TOGAF, MODAF, Zachman) and applying security architecture
• Subject matter knowledge in security technologies (identity management, security operations, encryption, cloud security, etc.)
• Experience providing security architecture guidance to government and/or commercial clients; producing artefacts such as patterns or technical standards

• stakeholder engagement
• communication of complex security decisions
• team collaboration
• identity management
• security operations
• protective monitoring